The long-awaited debut of The Weather Channel HD arrived on Wednesday as DirecTV customers became the first to see it on the air. This is despite September 2007 being an original target time of its launch as reported by Shirley Brady of Cable360.net dating back to March 7th. My thoughts were it would've coincided with The Weather Channel's second season of Epic Conditions and the debut of WeatherVentures on October 1st (this coming Monday).
Glen Dickson of Broadcasting & Cable reported even earlier this year back on February 19th that DirecTV would be the only carrier to date to provide the new high definition channel at its launch, but other cable and satellite providers will soon follow in adding TWC HD to their channel lineups. DirecTV is in the middle of a major overhaul of offerings of adding 21 new HD channels with not all of them regularly available on cable television, so this was already in their plans to add TWC HD here in very late September.
In the coming months, additional HD programming on The Weather Channel will be added, but not all live programs will be in the new format until their new HD studios now under construction are completed in 2008.
At the start of this summer, Alain Hernandez (TMBtD) at TWC Classics created and posted on YouTube three beautiful concepts he designed for an IntelliSTAR HD he would like to have seen made on The Weather Channel. This takes full advantage of the 16:9 high definition aspect ratio screen.
IntelliSTAR HD day concept
IntelliSTAR HD evening concept
IntelliSTAR HD concept (version #2)
And now, here's the real thing!
As another forum member at TWC Classics, TWCFan gives fans a sneak peak at TWC HD from its debut on Wednesday with four You Tube video clips. You will be amazed by the new graphics makeover and layout. Keep in mind that this is the satellite feed of TWC HD and not of those from any upcoming new STARs covering local areas.
TWC HD debut #1
TWC HD debut #2
TWC HD debut #3
TWC HD debut #4
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